Actio — The Presentation and Reception of DH Codework
Appendix 6.A: Survey Questions
1. How does your process of DH programming usually start (e.g., with a research question you want to address; with the data you collected and need to analyse, etc.)? Give examples, if possible.
2. Who is the user you typically have in mind when programming (yourself, your team, the broader DH community)?
3. In what ways, if any, do humanities/digital humanities methods and theories influence your programming? Does this influence differ across the programming phases? Please explain and illustrate.
4. What are the main DH programming decisions you usually need to make? Do you typically think about these decisions in advance or as they appear in practice? Please explain and illustrate.
5. What would be an example of a DH argument you made through programming?
6. What are the main differences and similarities between the arguments you make in DH programming and in DH academic writing?
7. In what ways do you think humanities epistemological and methodological assumptions get reflected in your code?
8. What are the main challenges you experience in DH programming?
9. Is your DH programming typically individual or part of a collaborative project? In what ways, if any, does the decision-making differ in collaborative projects?
10. How and with whom do you usually share your code?
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